Characters With Anime Names

I'm not a huge fan of blatant references so I don't use them myself but I did once have an awkward experience with some anime nerd. I was grinding fates in N.Than (this was around ARR launch) and this guy basically gives me this angry rant because I had apparently misspelled his favorite cartoon character's name or some such and that I should "respect the anime". I felt a little embarrassed for the guy especially after I pointed out that Arkwright is a random hyuran surname and that I just happened to think Astrid was a pretty name.

I hate this.

But I mean, it's allowed so I'm like not going to say anything. I'll probably just roll my eyes and judge you and you'll never know. :3

In all seriousness, if I'm creating a character for me, my rule of thumb is that if the name is taken the way it was written by the original source, I should probably avoid it. For example: If "Ichigo Kurasaki" was taken, I should probably refrain from naming my character some variant like "Ichigo xHOLLOW" or something. It's a pretty good indication that that character is a popular one that is beat to death in character creation.

Also, lore names = win. My personal opinion, obviously.

This thread is so funny to me XD.

Do people really care this much about what other people wanted to name their characters? I don't even pay too much attention to them anyways, unless they're hilarious. I would rather see anime names then one I came across last night in a dungeon with something along the lines of burp n fart -___-

Since I wanted to be a bard, I named mine after Tauriel from The Hobbit (cause she's awesome), and then Kyudo because its the japanese martial art of archery :D

I, honestly, couldn't care less what people want to name their characters. Sure, it's not original, but far be it from me to worry over their fun. It only becomes an issue on Balmung if they try to roleplay as those characters. That is when I silently judge them. :D

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Originally Posted by TaurielKyudo

This thread is so funny to me XD.

Do people really care this much about what other people wanted to name their characters

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Yes
Same thing when I silently judge you for your terrible glamour. (not necessarily YOU personally but "you" as in others that aren't me)
I won't say anything but I'm giving you a side-eye behind my monitor.

In my experience I've found all the UchihaMadara666x420 to be solid players who knew their jobs well.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

Yes
Same thing when I silently judge you for your terrible glamour. (not necessarily YOU personally but "you" as in others that aren't me)
I won't say anything but I'm giving you a side-eye behind my monitor.

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I guess I just focus on my own stuff most of the time :P No one really gets my attention unless they are my actual friends. Also most of my close friends got either all or parts of the their names from characters. Doesn't bother me, we all enjoy anime, so it just makes it more fun.

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Originally Posted by TaurielKyudo

I guess I just focus on my own stuff most of the time :P No one really gets my attention unless they are my actual friends. Also most of my close friends got either all or parts of the their names from characters. Doesn't bother me, we all enjoy anime, so it just makes it more fun.

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That's fair. I personally spend a lot of time people watching so....

I'll notice, don't worry ;)

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Originally Posted by TaurielKyudo

Since I wanted to be a bard, I named mine after Tauriel from The Hobbit (cause she's awesome), and then Kyudo because its the japanese martial art of archery :D

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..and you never once thought that combining an obviously Tolkien-Elvish name with Japanese would sound...weird?
The same way it would be weird to name a child born to an US-family with German origins "Kyoko Mueller" or something like that?
Don't misunderstand, of course you are free to name your character whatever you want and I'm sure lots of people have all kinds of weird thoughts about my name as well (gave up counting just how many times I got asked if it's some variation of "meow" - it's not :rolleyes:). I just tried to explain why stuff like that bothers me :x
And the thoughts continue: "Couldn't she at least make an Elezen if she wants to call herself Tauriel? Why go with an Elvish name for a catgirl?" and so on.

Of course, I could just turn names off and only show initials if it bothered me that much. But it doesn't bother me much.
It's more like a minor annoyance, just like seeing characters which I consider ugly, or characters in slutty outfits with slutty make-up on.
It would be a lot worse to not know someone's names when I talk to them for the first time. And I wouldn't see funny or cute names either. But that doesn't stop me from thinking "Oh god, this again" when I befriend the next Benjamin Uzumaki.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

That's fair. I personally spend a lot of time people watching so....

I'll notice, don't worry ;)

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Haha, I feel like whenever I'm playing I'm constantly doing something, so I feel like I don't have a lot of time to people watch. Although a FC on our server had a Valentine's Day party last night...definitely interesting XD